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Portland Press Herald

PressHerald

Morning, fellow Social Distancers. Back again with another daily thread of coronavirus news you need to stay healthy and informed at home. These are presented free to access as a

Sahil Bloom

SahilBloom

“Razors” are rules of thumb that simplify decisions.The most valuable razors I’ve discovered: The Smart Friends RazorIf your smartest friends are all interested in something, it’s worth paying attention to.If

Dónal Hassett

donalhassett1

We’ve seen some heated debate this week but today let’s celebrate all the excellent work that has been and is being done on questions of Ireland, empire and race. Please

Canadian Tired🔻

domenicahope

2020 #REREAD LIST:1. The Writing Life by Annie Dillard (1989) | Initially read this a decade ago in the first creative writing-focused class I ever took. Hung onto it all

William Yu 유규호

its_willyu

HEY EMERGING SCREENWRITER! I finally jotted some notes down about my process of signing with an agent. Lots of you DMed kind words about my manager thread, so I hope

Onaiz Qutabzada 🇵🇰

YeniceriQ

Who's the greatest world conquererA detailed comparison between Caliph Umar RadiAllah Anhu and Macedonian King Alexander. Alexander lll of Macedonia known as Alexander the Great (21 July 356 BCE –

Smaran Dayal

smaran

It's Indigenous Peoples' Day. Here's a thread by a settler South Asian scholar on Indigenous Studies texts we should all be reading, learning from, citing, and most importantly translating into

Yael Rice

Yael_Rice

Christie's recent sale of a 15th-c. Qur'an ms. lacking transparent info. about its provenance has generated much debate about the legal/ethical dimensions of the sale & trafficking of mss. This

Wyatt Cenac

wyattcenac

Enough people agreed with the idea, so @HBO made the first season of @ProblemAreasHBO (which looks at policing in America) available on @YouTube for free... for a month.(And maybe only

stitch⁷ 🌱

stichomancery

seeing folks subtweeting and missing the entire fucking point because they literally do NOT know the context that comes from like at least a decade of fandom pushing back against

Michael Harriot

michaelharriot

So much of history has been whitewashed for the sake of making it palatable for white consumption that we are starting to perpetuate things that are not only misconceptions, but

Siddharth Misra

sidart_misra

Swami Dayanand in 1873 made Swadeshi as an article of Faith. Post that #AtmaNirbhar Bharat campaign had three phases , each resulting in some Hits and misses. But in totality,

Nim Ralph

NMRLPH

Trans allyship: a thread. I've been asked to speak on panels about trans activism a lot the last few years, esp through pride month. One question I *always* get asked

Joseph Friedman, MPH (He/Him)

JosephRFriedman

How much did overdose deaths *actually* increase during the pandemic? The CDC releases rolling 12-month data. But we want to know the true month-to-month death toll.Today in @AMJPublicHealth, @samirakre and

Dannielle (Dossy) Blumenthal PhD

DrDannielle

4/10/2020 - let's do a thread about the media. NBC News, 10/2/2017: "Trump's Right: His Media Coverage Is Mostly Negative"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-s-right-his-media-coverage-mostly-negative-n806681 This is

anaccounttofollowyou

accountforfoll7

this here *backhand slaps* is my Guiding Stars reading thread. once again, please feel free to mute. also. spoilers. beware. it's not. a lesson. *grips* nah. i'm really going to